resume

Background, experience, and selected works.

General Information

Full Name Matthias Christenson
Skills Machine Learning, Time-Series Modeling, MLOps, Statistical Analysis, Cloud (AWS, GCP)
Languages English (fluent), German (fluent), Spanish (working proficiency), French (basics)
Programming Python, SQL, Javascript, C++, Git, Bash, Unix, Docker
Python Stack scikit-learn, numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn, dask, xarray, pytorch, transformers, lightning, pyro, cvxpy, Flask, Dask, streamlit, dash

Experience

2026-present Head of Medical Data and AI · Sanoptis, Zurich, Switzerland
2024-2026 Chief AI Architect & Scientist · MTN, Salt Lake City, USA (remote)
2024-present Adjunct Faculty · University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA (remote)
2024-2024 Deep Learning Research Engineer · DeepLife, Paris, France (remote)
2022-2023 Postdoctoral Research Scientist · Columbia University, New York, USA
2016-2022 Doctoral Research Scientist · Columbia University, New York, USA
2013-2016 Undergraduate Research Assistant (part-time) · University College London, London, UK

Education

2022 PhD · Columbia University, New York, USA
2016 MSci · University College London, London, UK

Honors and Awards

2024 NIH A2 Collective Award
2020 NIH T32 Vision Research Grant CoSyNe Presenters Travel Grant
2019 NIH T32 Vision Research Grant
2018 Cold Spring Harbor Asia Summer School Stipend
2016 Burnstock Prize - Best in Class Dean's List - UCL Life Sciences
2015 Dean's List - UCL Life Sciences UCL ChangeMakers Stipend Physiological Society Undergraduate Vacation Studentship
2014 UCL Research Stipend
2011 Deutscher Mathematiker Verein Award

selected works

  1. Assessing Foundation Models’ Transferability to Physiological Signals in Precision Medicine
    Matthias P. Christenson, Cove Geary, Brian Locke, Pranav Koirala and Warren Pettine
    AI in Medicine Conference, 2024
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  2. Hue selectivity from recurrent circuitry in Drosophila
    Matthias P Christenson, Sanz Dı́ez, Sarah L Heath, Maia Saavedra-Weisenhaus, Atsuko Adachi, L.F. Abbott and Rudy Behnia
    Nature Neuroscience, 2024
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  3. Exploiting colour space geometry for visual stimulus design across animals
    Matthias P. Christenson, S. Navid Mousavi, Elie Oriol, Sarah L. Heath and Rudy Behnia
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022
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  4. Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Chromatic Encoding in Drosophila Photoreceptors
    Sarah L. Heath*, Matthias P. Christenson*, Elie Oriol, Maia Saavedra-Weisenhaus, Jessica R. Kohn and Rudy Behnia
    Current Biology, 2020
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  5. Inferring feedforward inputs to data-constrained recurrent neural networks
    Matthias P. Christenson, Rudy Behnia and Larry Abbott
    Columbia Neurotheory Meeting, 2021

Interests

  • Skiing and mountaineering
  • Board games (especially Catan Cities & Knights)
  • Dancing (from waltzing to salsa)
  • Understanding dynamical systems (from financial markets to biological circuits)